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Sefir - 26 September 2014 07:21 AM

Like Portal 1/2 for example.
Or, most rescently, The Stanley Parable.

Seconding this. VA in Portal 2 was wonderful (especially Stephen Merchant), and The Stanley Parable is worth playing just for the narration. Heck, the game IS the narration, and controlling Stanley just to hear more of Kevan Brighting talk.

I hate to say it, but I think a great game ruined by bad VA was Tim Curry in GK1. Too hammy, I had to turn it off and just use the subtitles.

A game that is great inspite of the terrible VA of the main character: The Lost Crown. So bad it’s fun to listen to. My ex and I still make fun of it years later, and it’s one of my all time favourite games.

Mikekelly - 18 May 2018 09:52 PM

The only game I thought had bad VA was Legacy: Dark Shadows, it was obvious they used the same actor for several characters.

This is not really a problem on its own. A lot of the most popular and best regarded cartoons do the same, using very a small circle of actors for all the characters.

Mikekelly - 20 May 2018 04:25 PM

I could not agree more if professional voice actors are used. In Legacy: Dark Shadows, the voice actors seemed to be company employees, like the janitor. So they went up to the company janitor, and said, when you finished scrubbing the toilets, we have some voice acting to do.

Then he did about 10 characters, 5 ofthem with a closepin on his nose to make him sound different. Yes it was that

  That’s got to be the funniest impression of the voice-acting in a game I’ve actually played! Unfortunately I don’t remember it & couldn’t finish it at the time on account of some bug later on .... grr!

Maybe my expectations are set too high but I find voice-acting in plenty of the games I play a little ropey.  It’s almost never enough to spoil my enjoyment, however.

For low budget, Art of Murder: FBI Confidential stands out and for a higher budget game, Memento Mori had some characters who were quite poorly voiced, but I still really enjoyed that one.

Unfortunately, it’s the worst that stand out in my mind, the best just tend to seem natural.  For some reason Discworld is one of the better ones I’m remembering right now - with the excellent Tony Robinson iirc.

dumbeur - 23 May 2018 07:30 AM

For some reason Discworld is one of the better ones I’m remembering right now - with the excellent Tony Robinson iirc.

I totally second this. In fact for me Discworld has the best voice acting bar none.
It helps if you’re a Monty Python’s fan, though. :-)

Who isn’t?

I’m a Monty Python fan, but not a Monty Python fan fan.

I thought I’d left a comment earlier, but it’s gone! I’ll try and remember what it said:

2. The Watchmaker. A game made with a lot of love and ambition but too many flaws, and the voice acting was perhaps the most serious of them.

I don’t think I have strong enough answers for the other questions, but just to add to the discussion:

I get the impression I’m in the minority, but I quite liked Sadwick. He’s annoying and miserable, but there’s a warmth and (rather dark) humour there too - I couldn’t help but smile at lines like “I love candlelight. It reminds me of my mother’s grave.”

A favourite individual performance: Sarah Elmaleh as Jamie in The Blackwell Deception. So poignant - she’s always good, but that one character stands out for me.